James Barnes
Senior Test Automation Engineer
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Barnes is a Senior Test Automation Engineer with 10 years’ experience building pragmatic, maintainable automation frameworks across web, mobile and API stacks for organisations including Just Eat Takeaway, Channel 4 and ADP. He combines a mathematics background with hands-on C#, Java and CI/CD expertise to design NuGet-backed test libraries, SpecFlow-driven acceptance suites and BrowserStack-integrated pipelines that scale in agile teams. James has led small teams and mentored juniors while also diving into platform-specific automation (iOS Objective‑C/Swift and Appium for mobile) and accessibility testing with screen readers. He’s particularly skilled at spotting automation opportunities through the development lifecycle and turning them into reusable framework components that reduce manual effort and improve release confidence.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Oxted SchooliOS 8 Development Training1st, Mathematics and Statistics, 1st, Mathematics and Statistics at University of Kent
Github Skills (9)
applet10
composite9
gmail-api5
react5
netsuite5
api4
testing4
typescript2
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SkillsFundingAgency/dfc-compui-testautomation-pkg-netcore
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:19 reviews, 37 PRs, 144 pushes in 4 months
jbarnes16503/stone-of-destiny-website
Jul 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 3 months
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